Carol Burnett’s Favorite Sketches– airs at 8 pmJoin Carol Burnett for her personally selected favorite moments from her long-running comedy series, including sketches from the first five years of the show not seen in decades.

Pioneers of Television ‘Funny Ladies‘ – airs at 9:30 pmThis episode includes the first standup comediennes to appear on television, including Joan Rivers and the late Phyllis Diller. Funny Ladies also looks at Lucille Ball’s breakthrough on I Love Lucy and the sitcom stars who followed, including Mary Tyler Moore, Betty White and Marla Gibbs. Also, television’s most beloved variety star, Carol Burnett.

Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration– airs at 10:30 pm
View dozens of classic TV and movie clips and hear comments from Moore’s co-stars and Moore herself. Oprah Winfrey recounts Moore’s critical role in inspiring her – and millions of others – as TV’s first independent career woman.

Tensions are running high as The Great British Baking Show is about to crown a winner for Season 3. With only three contestants remaining, it’s finals time.

For the final signature challenge, bakers must make 16 iced buns, in two varieties in just three hours.

As part of the technical challenge, bakers are going to be facing Paul Hollywood’s raspberry-flavored mille-feuille to test their skills in pastry making, something they have all struggled with. Paul Hollywood explains:

For the final Showstopper, the bakers will have four hours to make classic British cakes in a multi-layered presentation.

Mercy Street has started to tease us with new content from the upcoming season, that will grace our screens in 2017. We’ve gathered a few of our online favorites from Mercy Street for you to check out.

First Look

In case you missed it, Mercy Street released this first look of Season 2 and it contains a lot of great details from your favorite cast members. Watch it:

Make Your Own Civil War Era Tintype Portrait

This awesome online app has been around since the first season, but it’s still as fun to do by yourself or with friends. It’s a good way to prepare for the new season and it makes for a great profile picture.

Secrets From The Mercy Street Set

If you didn’t know, Mercy Street has a blog called Mercy Street Revealed. They post great behind-the-scenes content so you can learn more about the production process.

Demonstrating that the everyday and mundane are often anything but, the engrossing documentary Everyday Miracles reveals how raw materials are transformed into the objects that make modern life more comfortable.

Over the course of this two-part program, host Mark Miodownik reveals the scientific discoveries and fascinating industrial processes behind everything from the cars we drive to the clothes we wear to the furniture we sit on.

Home – airs Aug. 9 at 8 pmProfessor Mark Miodownik shows us what is so great about “stuff.” So many of the goods around us, which we likely take for granted, are revealed to be little pieces of domestic magic: everyday miracles. On the road and in the lab with explosive experiments, Mark reveals why the everyday and even the mundane is anything but.

Away – airs Aug. 16 at 8 pmProfessor Mark Miodownik looks at how materials allow us to indulge our curiosity about the world, enabling us to go further and travel faster. He looks at how the bicycle suddenly stirred a national gene pool, why we should all be grateful for exploding glass and what levitation has to do with discovering your inner self.

Science Goes to the Movies ‘Force Majeure And Rosewater‘ – airs at 7 pmScience Goes to the Movies looks at the Swedish film, Force Majeure and Jon Stewart’s Rosewater for a discussion on visceral fear. What does fear do to the brain, to the body and how does fear affect decision making? With guest journalist Ira Flatow, we consider the effects of fear on our political process.

Corinth Films Collection ‘Kansas City Confidential‘ – airs at 8 pmA down-on-his-luck ex-GI (John Payne) finds himself framed for an armored car robbery. When he’s finally released for lack of evidence–after having been beaten up by the police–he sets out to discover who set him up, and why. The trail leads him into Mexico and a web of hired killers and corrupt cops.

Corinth Films Collection ‘Scarlet Street‘ – airs at 9:45 pmWhen a man in mid-life crisis (Edward G. Robinson) befriends a young woman, her venal fiancé persuades her to con him out of some of the fortune she thinks he has.

From the secrets of the dead to the ruthless murderer of Al Capone, we have a lineup of programs you don’t want to miss.

Al Capone: Icon – airs at 6 pmThe mention of Al Capone’s name sparks images of pinstripe suits and ruthless murders. More than 80 years after the height of his power, this program explores Capone’s enduring impact on American culture and learn why people are still so fascinated by this celebrity gangster.

History Project ‘Beneath Alcatraz‘ – airs at 7 pmJune 11, 1962, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, three prisoners – Frank Lee Morris, Clarence Anglin, and John Anglin – did the impossible. Desperate and dangerous, they escaped from Alcatraz prison. This has been an enduring historical mystery and we still don’t have the entire answer.

Secrets of the Dead ‘Alcatraz Escape‘ – airs at 8 pmThe three convicts who escaped Alcatraz in rafts in 1962 were swept out to sea and drowned, according to conventional wisdom. Now, a team of scientists believes the escapees could have made it to dry land-but only if they left at a specific time.

Secrets of Underground London – airs at 9 pmThis program takes a chronological look at the natural and man-made wonders beneath London. It features a large section on the London Underground, how it was built, its use during World War II, the ghost stations and stories and the museum. The film also highlights the lost river fleet, the sewer system, the Brunel Tunnel and the Churchill War Rooms, to name a few.

Join KLRUQ as we explore the Indian Ocean and two of the world’s most mysterious creatures.

Wildest Island ‘Sri Lanka: Monsoon Island‘ – airs at 8 pmLying like a teardrop in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka is an island that defies convention. Poised just six degrees above the equator, it’s less than 75,000 km sq in size. But it has enough wildlife to rival a continent, and it’s all down to its complicated climate and geography.

Wonder of Animals‘Elephants‘ – airs at 9 pmChris Packham explores the anatomy and physiology of the largest land animal on the planet – the elephant. Their size seems ill-suited to surviving the most arid regions of Africa, but their inner workings allow them to defy the extreme heat of the desea and find food and water in seemingly barren landscapes, while their extraordinary memory enables them to repel predators.

Wonder of Animals ‘Bats‘- airs at 9:30 pmBats have colonised remote corners of the planet to become one of most widespread mammals on earth. Chris Packham explores their incredible anatomy, physiology and senses to understand what enables them to thrive in some surprising places.

Volcano Odyssey – airs at 10 pmAnimation is used to trace 65 million years of evolution at a volcanic hotspot in the Indian Ocean.

Inspired by everything awkward and sweet, Lauren Briere paints scenes of robots in nature. Each of her paintings is inspired by a human emotion that we’ve all experienced, and reminds us of things we take for granted.

From the very beginning, the planets, stars and galaxies have always fascinated us. Which is why we are dedicating an entire evening featuring three programs on to topic of space.

Space Men: American Experience – airs at 7 pm
Meet the pioneering Air Force scientists and pilots whose Project Manhigh, which collected data about the biological and technical factors required to support human activity in space, laid the groundwork for the US space program.

History Project ‘Moonbug: The Apollo Project‘ – airs at 8 pmThese are the adventurers, risk takers and dreamers who were behind one of the most historic endeavours of our time. From living rooms and moonscape deserts, to Cape Canaveral, Steve Pyke captures the men in frank, revealing portraits, while unravelling their very personal and divergent memories.

Cosmonauts– airs at 8: 55 pmWhen, in July 1969, Neil Armstrong made one giant leap for mankind, America went down in popular history as the winner of the space race. But the real space pioneers of the 20th century were the Soviets. Between 1961 and 1966, they realised a number of spectacular historical achievements including the first man and woman in space, the first spacewalk and the first unmanned lunar landing. This series uses unseen archive footage and compelling interviews to reveal the story of the space race from the other side of the iron curtain.

Do you have to dodge the contents of bedpans or step over rotting corpses on your way to work? Well, you may have had to if you’d lived in London, New York or Paris when they were filthy cities…

Dan Snow’s series brings to life the murky histories of these great cities, taking the travelogue in a new direction as he excavates their dirty pasts in gruesome detail during defining periods in history.

Using state-of -the- art CGI, he goes back in time to medieval London, revolutionary Paris and 19th-century New York. What he reveals is that the story of our epic battle against filth through the ages is also the story of the birth of the modern metropolis.

Filthy Cities ‘Medieval London‘ – airs at 8 pmHistorian Dan Snow gets down and dirty in medieval grime to discover the hard way how the London we know today was forged in the filth of the 14th century. State of the art CGI reveals London’s streets as they were 700 years ago and Dan steps into the shoes of a medieval Londoner – wooden platforms designed to help him rise above the disgusting mess underfoot.

Filthy Cities ‘Revolutionary Paris’ – airs at 8:55 pmJust 200 years ago Paris was famously one of the foulest and smelliest cities in Europe. In this program historian Dan Snow sniffs out the rotten story of the French revolution. Stunning CGI reveals the stinking streets where ordinary people slaved in toxic industries and suffered grotesque poverty and disease. Dan immerses himself in their world, visiting a perfumer to recreate the stench of the 18th century city – Pong de Paris.

Filthy Cities ‘Industrial New York’ – airs at 9:50 pmWith ground breaking CGI historian Dan Snow travels back to a seething Manhattan in the throws of the industrial revolution. Millions fled persecution, poverty and famine in Europe in the 19th century in search of the Promised Land. When they arrived what they found was even worse than what they’d left behind.